Mark Shea writes: If I were to ask you, "Which is generating outrage among British Muslims: this ad? or this story about a 16 year old strangled in a barbaric Muslim "honor killing"?
You'd be right if you picked the puppy. Dogs are, you see, ritually unclean to Muslims, who can't seem to get it through their infantile heads that the rest of us are not obliged to bother our heads about their particular cultural taboos.
It's not that complicated. Jews get this. They don't go around being outraged that Gentiles eat pork or enjoy Piglet cartoons. Catholics get this. No Catholic objects when a non-Catholic has meat on a Friday during Lent.
But the infantile culture of Western Islam, unable to adjust to the elementary demands of being a minority in a pluralistic culture, behave with the grace and aplomb we've come to expect from the religion that gave us the Danish Cartoon Riots.
And if all goes according to pattern, the castrati who comprise the British intelligentsia will again apologize, suck up, and then find some Catholic or Evangelical to kick as an act of compensation for their unmanliness.
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I've often thought, while living in the Arab world and watching how worked up some people can get over inconsequential matters, why can't they summon this kind of outrage over dishonor killings?!
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
"Reclaiming Honor in Jordan"
http://www.redroom.com/author/ellen-r-sheeley
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